摘要:AbstractPeters and Waterman have started already in the eighties the stage of identifying factors determining the success rate of a business company. The aim of this article is to analyse and select concepts based on defining factors of a business company success rate suitable for achieving the excellence of business subjects. The focus is put to examination and assessment of su ccess rate factors of business subjects in the Slovak Republic including a general description of concepts based on defining factors for success rate of a business company. The application of primary and secondary research methods showed that success rate factor s do not lie in monetary values but in non-measureable factors reflecting the rate of innovations, satisfaction of employees and customers and the rate of company liability to the society and so on.